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Katharine Susannah Prichard

Born

in Levuka, Fiji

December 04, 1883

Died

October 02, 1969

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Katharine Susannah Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883, and spent her childhood in Launceston, Tasmania, before moving to Melbourne, where she won a scholarship to South Melbourne College. Her father, Tom Prichard, was editor of the Melbourne Sun newspaper. She worked as a governess and journalist in Victoria then travelled to England in 1908. Her first novel, The Pioneers (1915), won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize. After her return to Australia, the romance Windlestraws and her first novel of a mining community, Black Opal were published.

Prichard moved with her husband, war hero Hugo "Jim" Throssell, VC, to Greenmount, Western Australia, in 1920 and lived at 11 Old York Road for much of the rest of her life. She w ...more

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Average rating: 3.58 · 706 ratings · 98 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	Coonardoo 3.52 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 1929 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haxby's Circus 3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1930 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Opal 4.13 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1921 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pioneers 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1915 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brumby Innes / Bid Me to Love by Katharine Susannah Prichard, Katharine Brisbane 3.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1929 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ROARING NINETIES 3.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1946 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Working Bullocks 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1926 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golden miles by Katharine Susannah Prichard, Drusilla Modjeska (Introduction) 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1948 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winged Seeds by Katharine Susannah Prichard, Drusilla Modjeska (Introduction) 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1950 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intimate Strangers 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1937 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Goldfields Trilogy (3 books)
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“Don’t sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations… I found that out too late.”
― Katharine Susannah Prichard

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